Intelen
group was selected / shortlisted as candidate of
the most promising TOP-100 technological Start-up
companies in the world, from Guidewire Group.
The eleventh
Pitch Slam in the Innovate!2010 series, which
encompassed two sessions of companies pitching,
took place at the Microsoft Conference Centre in
Paris on the 26th of April. The panel of judges
included Amina Belghiti (Head of Developer Platform
and New Ventures for Europe, PayPal), Nicolas Debock
(Innovation and Strategy, Xange), Martin Duval (Founder
and CEO, bluenove), Laurent Perriault (Partner,
MGT), Sam Rosenbalm (Director of Community Development,
Emerging Business Team, Microsoft), Roxanne Varza
(Editor, Techcrunch France), Matteo Rizzi (Innovation
Leader, SWIFT), Chipper Boulas (Founder and Managing
Director, Boulas Ventures), Stephanie Bouchet (Founder,
RougeFrog), and Guillaume Berthet (idEES and BizSpark
startups, Microsoft).
The founder
and CEO of Intelen, V. Nikolopoulos, presented the
innovative smart metering and Web 2.0 Energy ICT
services to the committee.
INTELEN
is an innovative group / green-business Company
founded in 2006 by a core group of promising high-level
PhDs and it is considered as a
National leading group in applied research and business
application of modern IT, Internet Technologies
and advanced Algorithms applied to the Energy and
ICT sector (Energy Information Systems and
Services).
The group consists
of young ambitious scientists and engineers and
the basic objective is to promote technological
research, creative thinking and perception bind
with technological innovation in a national and
global level so that to be the mirror of the Greek
research potential for abroad.
The group has already won national and European
level prizes (OTENET Innovation Award 2006, TOP-5
ALBA in Green Entrepreneurship 2008, presented to
the Innovation Academy Microsoft 2008, members of
EU Innovation Academy i-techpartner, TOP-100 tech-startups
worldwide) with several Patents in algorithms and
energy knowledge management and publications in
conferences and journal papers.
Innovate!2010 is a global competition to identify
and promote the top 100 global technology startups.
The program enables the most promising startups
to gain access to resources and opportunities to
accelerate the growth of their companies. Innovate!2010
also enables its partners, including technology
and telecommunications vendors, government agencies,
professional services providers, technology scouts
and investors, to identify and engage hundreds of
highly vetted, fast-growing startups and raise their
brand profile in the global startup community. Innovate!2010
sponsors and partners include leading organizations
like Alacatel-Lucent, BestBuy, Cisco Systems, Comcast,
DifferenceEngine, EMC, HP, HSBC, Hearst, IBM, LaPoste,
LG Electronics, Microsoft, O2 Litmus, Oracle, PWC,
Quickstart Global, PayPal, RIM, SAP, Silicon Valley
Bank, Sony, SWIFT, Turner Broadcasting, Verizon,
and the City of Zaragoza; as well as European and
U.S. economic development agencies, and dozens of
leading angel and venture capital investors.
About Guidewire Group,
Inc.
Guidewire Group is a global
market intelligence and advisory firm passionate
about technology entrepreneurship. Our exclusive
focus on early-stage companies and emerging technology
markets drives insight and opportunity to our clients
and community. At the heart of our offerings is
the G/Score™, a proprietary assessment tool
that brings clarity and focus to the art of transforming
ideas into successful enterprises. Developed over
the course of more than 20,000 startup interviews,
the G/Score has proven to be a reliable predictor
of startup viability and promise. Our G/Score data
helps technology investors, customers and platform
vendors rapidly qualify and respond to startup deal
flow from even thousands of startups. Our G/Score
assessment tools help startups, investors, service
providers and government agencies to identify and
benchmark competitive strengths and weaknesses,
and our Studio G business acceleration programs
helps startups achieve their growth objectives with
clarity of purpose, speed and efficiency.
